Dimitris Kalokyris translates the three tragedies of Sophocles that draw their inspiration from the Theban cycle. In this book, the tragedies of the mythical Theban cycle concerning the house of the Labdacids converse with texts by Plutarch, Empirikos, and Borges.

"In translation, there are no solved problems. The concern is usually what the characters of ancient works say; mainly, however, how they say it. But the rapid emotional shifts of the characters also gain syntactical interest for the translator: the Kafkaesque almost 'naive ignorance' of pivotal events that determine the action (when Oedipus first asks about Laius after so many years, etc.), the dance-like pirouettes between the former Tyrant and the residents of Colonus about where exactly he will sit, his erratic relationship with the occasionally 'tyrant' Creon, the Guardian's conversation with him at the beginning of Antigone, Antigone's indifference towards Haemon, who literally 'sacrifices' himself for her, and her asymmetric devotion to her brother, her relationships with Ismene, the absence of the gods but their constant invocation as omnipresent moral mechanisms, the presence of the Chorus as a regulator – yet often a victim of circumstances, etc.

The translational reading of poetry takes place through the poetic lenses chosen by each translator to give the tone of the discourse. In this case, sporadic explanations or references to mythical incidents (and, generally, to the hidden arsenal of philology) intertwine among certain lines, while references to similar poetic events ("What are you waiting for gathered," etc.), gestures that analogously refer to the contemporary poetic tradition (Solomos, Kavafis, Elytis, Ritsos, Borges) are interspersed, and were chosen to color the spectrum of the translator's choices." From the foreword by D.K.